In many disciplines it makes more sense to monitor the ending of the old with the idea in mind that this ending gives us early warning of the new.
Certainly that is true in fields like trading, where we are interested in activity on the edge, on the margin, in the evolving present, in the real time of now.
Let’s talk about freedom, and of dependency. We speak of living free in an unfree world. We live in a world surprisingly lacking in freedom. In the United States and in many other western industrialized countries we live inside a myth of freedom, that is, we believe we are freer than we actually are. Our […]
The topic here is taking full responsibility for all of our actions. And we speak of anger towards others and towards ourselves. First, about responsibility. Why do we need to discuss this here? Are we not all fully responsible adults, as we go about earning our living and paying our bills and meeting our obligations? […]
There is a special form of lying that is universal and rampant. It corrupts our perceptions and causes all kinds of problems. We constantly engage in this form of lying, and we normally do not recognize when we are doing it. And yet it is very harmful to our efforts to develop self-awareness, and our desire to be conscious of ourselves, and of the world around us.